Welcome, World-Honored One
After twenty Parts of preparation, throne-building, and praise, the King of the Tuṣita Heaven finally speaks: "Welcome, World-Honored One! Welcome, Well-Gone One! Welcome, Tathāgata, Worthy One, Truly and Rightly Awakened One!" The Buddha accepts his invitation and enters the jeweled palace — and the sūtra closes the moment with its own signature claim: the same event unfolds, exactly, in every world of the ten directions.
The King Speaks, and the Buddha Enters
After every offering has been made and every light has shone, the King of the Tuṣita Heaven finally addresses the Buddha directly, in the sūtra's traditional threefold welcome. The Buddha's acceptance of the invitation is itself explained through another chain of purposes — joy for living beings, understanding for bodhisattvas, delight for the heavenly sons — before the passage closes on the sūtra's own recurring claim: this exact scene repeats identically throughout every world in the ten directions.
爾時，兜率陀天王奉為如來嚴辦如是諸供具已，與百千億那由他阿僧祇兜率天子向佛合掌，白佛言：「善來世尊！善來善逝！善來如來、應、正等覺！唯見哀愍，處此宮殿！」
At that time, the King of the Tuṣita Heaven, having reverently prepared every one of these offerings for the Tathāgata, together with a hundred thousand million nayutas of asaṃkhyeyas of Tuṣita heavenly sons, joined his palms toward the Buddha, and said to the Buddha: "Welcome, World-Honored One! Welcome, Well-Gone One! Welcome, Tathāgata, Worthy One, Truly and Rightly Awakened One! We beg only that, out of compassion, you dwell within this very palace!"
爾時，世尊以佛莊嚴而自莊嚴，具大威德；為令一切眾生生大歡喜故，一切菩薩發深悟解故，一切兜率陀天子增益欲樂故，兜率陀天王供養承事無厭足故，無量眾生緣念於佛而發心故，無量眾生種見佛善根福德無盡故，常能發起清淨信故，見佛供養無所求故，所有志願皆清淨故，勤集善根無懈息故，發大誓願求一切智故，受天王請，入一切寶莊嚴殿。如此世界，十方所有一切世界，悉亦如是。
At that time, the World-Honored One, adorning himself with the buddha's own adornment, endowed with great awesome virtue — in order to cause every living being to give rise to great joy; in order to cause every bodhisattva to give rise to profound awakened understanding; in order to cause every Tuṣita heavenly son to increase their own delight; in order to cause the King of the Tuṣita Heaven to make offerings and render service without ever growing weary or satisfied; in order to cause immeasurable living beings to take the Buddha as their object and give rise to the resolve; in order to cause immeasurable living beings to plant the inexhaustible wholesome roots and merit of beholding the Buddha; in order to be forever able to give rise to pure faith; in order that beholding the Buddha and making offerings to him would seek nothing in return; in order that every aspiration and vow would become entirely pure; in order to diligently gather wholesome roots without ever slackening or resting; and in order to give rise to the great vow of seeking all-knowing wisdom — accepted the heavenly king's own invitation, and entered the palace adorned with every treasure. And just as in this world, so too was it exactly the same in every world throughout the ten directions.
The threefold greeting — "Welcome, World-Honored One! Welcome, Well-Gone One! Welcome, Tathāgata, Worthy One, Truly and Rightly Awakened One!" — is the sūtra's own formal register for a moment it has been building toward across an entire chapter, and its simplicity after so much elaborate description is itself notable. That the Buddha's acceptance is explained through eleven distinct purposes, rather than left as a simple courtesy, keeps faith with the chapter's own habit: nothing here happens without a stated reason, down to the very act of walking through a door.
Part 192 Complete
This closes Part 192. Chapter 23 continues in Part 193.